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370, Lot: 423. Estimate $200.
Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 28.15 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 122-125. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Spes advancing left, holding flower and lifting dress. RIC II 612b; Banti 595. VF, brown patina, minor areas of roughness.


From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Lepczyk 61 (13 March 1985), lot 365; Vatican Museum duplicate from St. John’s College Collection, no. 429.